I don't need wall-to-wall action or gore to like a horror movie; some of the ones I most love are more atmospheric than explicit. I really did not like the original Blair Witch Project though - but I liked the mythology created for it, and felt it was put to much better use in Curse of the Blair Witch, The Burkittsville 7, and Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.
Willow Creek is kind of a remake of the first Blair Witch, with Bigfoot mythology instead of a witch. Bulk of the movie has main characters filming themselves at length before they ever get into the woods. People warn them that the protagonists later worry might be messing with them in the woods. They get lost and walk around in circles. They hear noises. They run. Eventually someone is seen standing silently - something that calls back to something mentioned in passing earlier in the movie that viewers may or may not have remembered, and the camera drops. Major difference from Blair Witch: this movie has songs about Bigfoot sung by Bigfoot fans who are not decidedly not great lyricists. At least it's only 80 minutes long, though it seemed twice that.
The best things in the movie were the name of a woman who says she's part of a local Indian tribe: Shawn L. White Guy, Sr.; some of the scenery before they get into the woods; and the female lead was cute. Oh, and Bobcat Goldthwait probably made a decent amount of money on the film, which maybe good since I like some of the other things he's done like God Bless America (2011).
Willow Creek is kind of a remake of the first Blair Witch, with Bigfoot mythology instead of a witch. Bulk of the movie has main characters filming themselves at length before they ever get into the woods. People warn them that the protagonists later worry might be messing with them in the woods. They get lost and walk around in circles. They hear noises. They run. Eventually someone is seen standing silently - something that calls back to something mentioned in passing earlier in the movie that viewers may or may not have remembered, and the camera drops. Major difference from Blair Witch: this movie has songs about Bigfoot sung by Bigfoot fans who are not decidedly not great lyricists. At least it's only 80 minutes long, though it seemed twice that.
The best things in the movie were the name of a woman who says she's part of a local Indian tribe: Shawn L. White Guy, Sr.; some of the scenery before they get into the woods; and the female lead was cute. Oh, and Bobcat Goldthwait probably made a decent amount of money on the film, which maybe good since I like some of the other things he's done like God Bless America (2011).